Re: Kate

Hi, a reply from another Sibling here. Saw you asking about Kate Bush's 
recent album.

The first disc I don't much care for. I've only listened to it maybe 
twice all the way through. It's nice, it's just.. I dunno. Something 
missing.

The second disc, however, I find to be an absolute masterpiece, the best 
thing I think she's ever done. In a way it's very vintage Siberry - it's 
like walking into a painting, with lots of things going on - birds, a 
painter, a rainstorm, a sunset, skinny dipping at midnight.. I adore 
it.  It's the kind of thing, though, where it's hard to pull out a 
single "song" because the whole disc flows together. It's almost like 
she had to write the songs on the first disc to be able to put the 
second disc out.

Anyway, just my opinion. :)

Dan Nash
Chicago, IL

B Merrill wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Thanks for asking.
>
> New Stuff: 
> My two sons have introduced me to Mars Volta which is (by far) the most
> interesting of the "music of youth today" that they have forced upon me,
> retro-Dad. It's aggressively prog, with wild vocals. Stratospheric
> falsetto! I have no idea what he's singing about, & probably happier not
> knowing. 
>
> Old, & something completely different: 
> I've tracked down some important pre-history for the breathy bossa style,
> that wispy voice + acoustic guitar combo, back to a very influential album
> by Julie London (her first) with Barney Kessel, jazz guitarist. "Julie is
> her name," around 1955. Just the two of them. Her voice is not big, and so
> she's doing this breathy highly miked style... that was a real eye-opener &
> eye-opener down in Brazil. London's approach is nowhere near as breathy
> (and the melodies are not so chromatic), but you can see how it was an
> influence.    
>
> Tell me what you think of Kate's newest. I've been kinda bummed & sulky
> ever since she brought in the infernal drum machine in "Running up that
> hill..." 
>
> Still 
> Haven't heard any Issa, or Jane's Xtian material. One of there years I will
> make a pilgrimage to Northampton, and see her in person. I'll be the one
> yelling for "Half Eagle, Half Angel." Until they toss me out, that is.
>
> Bru
>
> Ben Thomas wrote:
>   
>> oh, just the newest jane-incarnation.  i'm still open to new anything,
>> jane/issa/any.  i'm behind in my purchasing, just received bjork's
>> newest...haven't gotten thru the whole thing yet.  kinda hard to listen
>> to the first time.  i'm anxious to get the newest Kate Bush, ordered it
>> yesterday and am pretty psyched.  losing myself in musical theater
>> lately, mostly old sondheim, going to a cole porter review next week,
>> seeing the Pirate Queen in Chicago during it's pre-broadway preview and
>> a show called Altar Boyz.  going to NYC in the spring and already
>> starting to figure out what I want to see.  and you??  new stuff, old
>> stuff, jane stuff, issa/any stuff??